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Detailed by police officers along the New Jersey shore, 32-year-old waiter Russell J. Percenti was arrested last week for allegedly firing a shotgun at an aerial remote control “helicopter” drone flying in the vicinity of his home.
"I heard a shotgun shot, but it didn't register that they were shooting at me," he told me. "Then, as I'm starting to move, I hear 'boom, boom, boom,' three shots really close together. I think, 'I'm getting shot at, the drone is getting shot at.'"
The pilot said he tried to bring the drone back toward him, which was probably a bad idea because the buckshot from the next blast flew just above his head: "He fired again as the drone was coming toward me, I heard the buckshot go over my head, and that's when I think the bird got hit squarely," he said.
Good thing nobody shot at this one, could have put holes in the cathedral